Jazz Science

Update: I linked some parts to my previous posts on Augmented Scale ideas. Over at the All About Jazz forum , someone asked for suggestio...

As a follow up to the previous post about how to learn the notes on the guitar neck, I made a graphic to visually represent the "white ...

Ear training is obviously an extremely important pursuit for improvising musicians.  I spend a significant portion of my practice time on ea...

This post is directed at guitar players, all other instruments can safely ignore it.  It's a quick 5 minute lesson that will result in y...

One specific idea for using wider intervals in the beginnings and endings of phrases is to land on a chord tone and leap two chord tones up ...

Large intervallic leaps and interesting rhythms can make phrases more compelling.  The most effective place to use both devices is at the be...

Just thought I'd share a transcription I did a while ago.  I think it's pretty accurate, but there may be some some mistakes or typo...